[Discouraged] additional options

Thunder Compute provides the flexibility to attach virtual GPUs to your own cloud instances, kubernetes clusters, servers, or even personal computers. While this is even more convenient to set up than our managed instances, performance will be severely limited by the network connection to the virtually attached GPU. Given this unreliability, we discourage use of these features.

Running from outside of a managed instance

• $ tnr run
  • Outside of a Thunder Compute managed instance, prefix any command with $ tnr run to use cloud GPUs

Optimizing performance

While we can guarantee strong performance with our managed instances, there are some steps you can take to improve the performance with your instance.

In the cloud

• Connect as close to the GCP us-central region as possible
• If possible, upgrade the networking of your instance

On-premises (slower)

• Upgrade your internet service plan
  • Upload and download speeds are equally important
• Use an ethernet connection